For those Interested, etc todays menu:

[merciasounds]

Chicken liver pate with port, melba toasts, salad garnish
OR
Farmhouse cheddar and red onion chutney bites
OR
Cream of herb soup

Meatballs with spaghetti - tasty meatballs made with best minced steak, onion, a touch of garlic and fresh thyme, in a rich roasted tomato sauce with red wine, basil, and garlic.
OR
Seafood Paella, saffron rice with prawns, mussels, squid and scallops
OR
Chicken and ham pie - chunks of chicken breast meat, and smoked ham in a creamy sauce topped with golden flaky pastry, served with potatoes of choice (Handcut chips, new boiled, jacket) peas

For a light /veggiebite - Baby leek and cheese tart, new potatoes, homemade coleslaw

Cherry pie ice cream/cream/custard
OR
banana splits
OR
Brandy snap baskets filled with vanilla ice cream and butterscotch sauce, chocolate flake

17 cheeses, crackers, grapes celery

Coffee/liqueur coffee

GALLONS of cold wine - white and rose - red breathing!!

[LoftyLottie]

I have to turn my eggs and bash them so no there are no runny bits!!

[redcrx]

oooh yes, chips dipped in a fried egg is lovely!

[Kim A]

@ lofty - I could say the same -

A crumbly, hand made, all-butter pastry shell, blind-baked and filled with steamed, home-grown baby leeks, a chiffonade of home-grown spinach sauteed in butter, a fillet of steamed, undyed smoked haddock, flaked, all baked at a very low temperature (to prevent curdling), under a savoury custard of fresh double cream, free range eggs and organic milk, caressed together with a mixture of Grandma Singleton's Lancashire and organic Double Gloucester cheeses. Served with great pleasure and a portion of baby new potatoes, cooked until soft, then dressed with a simple dressing of organic sunflower oil, white wine vinegar (Dufrais) and Maille Dijon mustard whilst still warm and finished with chopped cherry tomatoes and a handful of fresh garden tarragon from the potager outside on my terrace.

Or I could just say, I made a very nice smoked fish, leek and spinach tart.

Not the only one who can cook. I'm trained, you know...

[cherrychapstick]

yes i would have egg and chips but not with tatties ie boiled or mashed

[LoftyLottie]

LOL Kim! Sounds really good, yum.

I am now off to have a juicy smoked mackerel fillet served with home grown baby salad leaves, succulent italian tomatoes, sun ripened advocado home made wholemeal bread.

All washed down with a cup of Tetley's!!

[mazie]

I Prefer the first description Kim, not only that I could make it from the first description (Sounds lovely)

[mazie]

lucky you loftie....I'm eating a weighwatchers chilli with potato wedges, not very inspiring! and a banana for afters. (I hate diets!)

[ummmm]

I don't know what I'm going to be doing....

Something with mashed potatoes I think.

[merciasounds]

Kim A, Why on earth would you want to mask the flavour of your (undyed) haddock with such a strong cheese as singletons? - and why not push the boat out and buy a decent brand of mustard and vinegar? Spoiling the ship etc....

[mollykins]

cheddar and chutney, can't decide between mains, brandy snaps please.

[grasscarp]

Pate, paella, cheese course and gallons of cold white wine.....

[joeluke]

Personally I thought my alternative menu was the best

[merciasounds]

After all the SH*T I had yesterday from her? Er yeah

[Kim A]

Because the couple of ounces of each that I had in the fridge were perfect for what I was doing, and there's nothing wrong with a balanced Mornay-ish vibe whether the smoked fish is dyed or undyed. So don't worry yourself - there was no 'masking' of any sort going on, given the strength of flavour of all the other ingredients. And with regard to my choice of mustard and vinegar for dressing, if it's good enough for my fellow professionals, it's good enough for me, thanks.

[society]

Don't stop posting your daily menus, Mercia. I like reading them.

[eash]

I like your menu's too :-)
In fact I'm a bit obsessed wth readig menu's for some reason, my mum thinks I should become a proof reader of menu's! Anyway......
I'll have the cheese and onion bites to start, chicken pie with chips for main and banana split for dessert please. Thanks!